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Quttera ThreatSign – Web Malware Scanner for WordPress
It finds everything including the files you actually need to keep
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
74/100
The scanner finds deep threats but frequent false positives and paid removal options frustrate users.
Active installs
~41,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.9★
47 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+6%
Growing
193 → 205 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.91★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +6% in the last year
193/day a year ago→205/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayQuttera ThreatSign is praised for its strong malware detection that often finds threats missed by other plugins, but users frequently criticize its high rate of false positives and the need to pay for removal.
What people like
- +Detects malware that other security plugins miss×6
- +Shows exact file paths and code snippets for infected files
- +Helps locate and remove infected files after a hack×3
- +Responsive support that manually reviews suspicious files
Common complaints
- −Generates many false positives, often flagging clean core files×4
- −Malware removal is only available in the paid version; free version only scans×2
- −Scanning can significantly slow or block the website
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.91★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.90★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 47 total
Latest reviews · 47 analyzed
- 2025-01-12★★★★★Effective plugin for vulnerability detectionromeroz
- 2024-04-11★★★★★Highly recommendednmrockswp
- 2023-02-10★★★★★Cleaned all my issues. Fantasticoscarma0071-shot
- 2022-11-05★★★★★Saved my liferocky12
- 2022-06-03★★★★★Useless AdwareWilliamCampbell
- 2021-09-16★★★★★Excellentdfyz1337
- 2021-03-01★★★★★Works well!Harald Wenzel
- 2020-09-26★★★★★AVOID, CONTINUOUS FALSE POSITIVESAndrés Sorolla
- 2020-08-27★★★★★Worth your time and money! HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDFaststores
- 2020-08-17★★★★★Waste of timepdpiotr
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Quttera ThreatSign
Top Security plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
252
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
183
Prior 7-day baseline
266
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,764
Mean release-day peak (30d)
455
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+37.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.94 → 3.91★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered